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Deep learning-guided adjuvant chemotherapy selection for elderly patients with breast cancer
The efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly breast cancer patients is currently controversial. This study aims to provide personalized adjuvant chemotherapy recommendations using deep learning (DL).
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Open AccessQuantified treatment effect at the individual level is more indicative for personalized radical prostatectomy recommendation: implications for prostate cancer treatment using deep learning
There are potential uncertainties and overtreatment existing in radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (PCa) patients, thus identifying optimal candidates is quite important.
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Open AccessAssociation between testosterone and cancers risk in women: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
Previous observational studies have explored the correlation between testosterone and cancer risk. However, the causal association between testosterone and various cancer types in women remains inconclusive. T...
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Open AccessIs HER2 ultra-low breast cancer different from HER2 null or HER2 low breast cancer? A study of 1363 patients
This study aims to analyze whether there are any differences in clinicopathological features and prognosis between HER2 ultra-low, HER2-null, and HER2-low expression in Chinese breast cancer (BC) patients.
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Neoadjuvant PD-1 inhibitor and apatinib combined with S-1 plus oxaliplatin for locally advanced gastric cancer patients: a multicentered, prospective, cohort study
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor and apatinib have been utilized in metastatic gastric cancer patients. The current study aimed to further investigate the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant S-1...
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Open AccessAnalysis of clinical features and risk factors of peripheral neuropathy in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome
To observe the clinical features and efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (PSS) combined with peripheral neuropathy (PN) syndrome and to explore the risk factors fo...
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Hypoxic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Acquire Arsenic Trioxide Resistance by Upregulating HIF-1α Expression
Although arsenic trioxide (ATO) is used in the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in clinical trials, it is not satisfactory in terms of improving HCC patients’ overall survival. Intratumoral...
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Open AccessChanges in the BTK/NF-κB signaling pathway and related cytokines in different stages of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs) are blindness-causing neuritis; their pathogenesis is still not fully elucidated. Although it has been determined that Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) and NF-κB ar...
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Open AccessClinicopathological characteristics and prognostic analysis of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and DCIS with microinvasion (DCIS-Mi) of the breast
Our purpose is to evaluate the correlation of TILs with clinicopathological characteristics and disease free survival (DFS) in DCIS and DCIS-Mi breast cancer (BC) patients.
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Open AccessRNF141 interacts with KRAS to promote colorectal cancer progression
RING finger proteins (RNFs) play a critical role in cancer initiation and progression. RNF141 is a member of RNFs family; however, its clinical significance, roles, and mechanism in colorectal cancer (CRC) rem...
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Open AccessTargeting of VPS18 by the lysosomotropic agent RDN reverses TFE3-mediated drug resistance
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Locostatin Alleviates Liver Fibrosis Induced by Carbon Tetrachloride in Mice
Liver fibrosis is featured with excessive deposition of extracellular matrix and fibrous connective tissue hyperplasia. The specific inhibitor of Raf-1 kinase inhibitor protein, locostatin, inhibits the migrat...
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Loss of the tumor suppressor, Tp53, enhances the androgen receptor-mediated oncogenic transformation and tumor development in the mouse prostate
Recent genome analysis of human prostate cancers demonstrated that both AR gene amplification and TP53 mutation are among the most frequently observed alterations in advanced prostate cancer. However, the biologi...
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Open AccessProteasome inhibition boosts autophagic degradation of ubiquitinated-AGR2 and enhances the antitumor efficiency of bevacizumab
Anterior gradient 2 (AGR2), a protein belonging to the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) family, is overexpressed in multiple cancers and promotes angiogenesis to drive cancer progression. The mechanisms contr...
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Androgen signaling is essential for development of prostate cancer initiated from prostatic basal cells
Emerging evidence has shown that both prostatic basal and luminal cells are able to initiate oncogenic transformation. However, despite the diversity of tumor-initiating cells, most prostate cancer cells expre...
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Malformin A1 promotes cell death through induction of apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy in prostate cancer cells
Malformin A1 (MA1), a cyclopentapeptide isolated from fungal origin, has been identified to induce varieties of intriguing biological activities. Here, we reported the mode of mechanism underlying MA1-mediated cy...
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A circulating miRNA signature as a diagnostic biomarker for non-invasive early detection of breast cancer
Novel, non-invasive biomarkers to diagnose breast cancer with high sensitivity and specificity are greatly desired. Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) show potential for breast cancer detection, but the existing r...
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Circulating DNA of HOTAIR in serum is a novel biomarker for breast cancer
Long non-coding HOX transcript antisense intergenic RNA (HOTAIR) plays an important role in breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether circulating HOTAIR can be used for breast cancer d...
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Identification of FLOT2 as a novel target for microRNA-34a in melanoma
To confirm whether flotillin 2 (FLOT2) is a direct target of miR-34a and miR-34a/FLOT2 pathway plays a key role in melanoma proliferation and metastasis.
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Genetic variations in IDH gene as prognosis predictors in TACE-treated hepatocellular carcinoma patients
Metabolic reprogramming is an important hallmark of cancer cells, including the alterations of activity and expression in tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle key enzymes. Previous studies have reported the associat...